By Philip Giraldi. UNZ – The key component of the Israel Lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), is the most powerful foreign policy lobby in Washington. It exists only to maintain and increase United States support for Israel, no matter what Israel does and no matter what the actual American interests might be. […]
By Philip Giraldi. UNZ – There has been a flurry of articles about the possibility that Jonathan Pollard, convicted Israeli spy who is now languishing in a North Carolina prison, might be released by President Barack Obama as a gesture to revive the moribund Middle East peace talks. Media accounts from Israel suggest that Secretary of State […]
By Philip Giraldi. AntiWar.com – I am going to explain why Gareth Porter’s new book Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare is possibly the most important expose of political corruption and government malfeasance to appear in the past ten years. Investigative reporter Porter’s meticulously documented account tells the tale of how the government […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: Transmitted below is a New York Times editorial which comes remarkably close to assigning blame for the inevitable failure of the Kerry round of the perpetual “peace process” to Israel. John Kerry, in an unguarded moment of honesty, did the same thing during his recent “poof” testimony to Congress … before the State Department launched […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: Transmitted below is an encouraging JERUSALEM POST news report. Until now, it has been widely assumed that John Kerry had fully and irrevocably bought into Bibi Netanyahu’s “Jewish state” gambit for ensuring the failure of the current ”negotiations” while shifting the blame to Palestine. Since the Palestinian negotiating position is fully consistent with international […]
IMEMC – Hanan Khatib, one of the lawyers of the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, stated Thursday that 15 ailing Palestinian political prisoners, held at the Ramla Prison Clinic, are facing deteriorating conditions amidst the lack of adequate medical care. Khatib said the detainees are denied the right to much needed medical attention and care, and […]
IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources have reported that eight Palestinians, including children, were injured when the Israeli Air Force fired a missile into an area in Beit Lahia city, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The attack took place near the Beit Lahia Club in the al-Manshiyya area. Medical sources said the wounded […]
Ma’an News – Israel is to start sending call-up papers to all Christian Palestinian-Israelis of military service age, army radio reported Tuesday, angering Palestinian MKs who accused the government of seeking to divide Christians from Muslims.Military service will remain voluntary for Israel’s 130,000 Palestinian-Israeli Christians as it is for its more than 1.3 million Palestinian-Israeli […]
The Guardian – The two main rival Palestinian factions have signed an accord designed to end seven years of sometimes violent division, paving the way for elections later in the year and the formation of a unity government within weeks. The move, after a day of talks between Hamas and Fatah in Gaza that lasted until three […]
IMEMC – The Israeli Authorities prevented Palestinian Legislator and the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, from entering the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip, as he was planning to head to Gaza along with other members of the National Reconciliation Committee. Barghouthi said that the Israeli authorities informed him his request “has […]
